Thursday, January 29, 2009

Well, the Welfare for Welfare Bill passed the House yesterday with all Republicans (with one "not voting") voting against this economy killer. The Republicans are obviously of a mindset that they accomplish more when in the minority and I certainly see that truth. Folks, our government has been broken for a long, damn time and this bill shall have no lasting effect on the submissiveness on the population. This is just another in the very long list of government power grabs.

Do you want an example? The Department of Energy. The DOE was FORMED in 1977. This agency is only thirty-one years old and already has 16,000 fed employees, but over 100,000 contract employees. The sole purpose of this government agency? To reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil. How is that working out? Well if you look at the fact that we now import 65% of our oil, and at the time, we only imported 15% of our oil, you would have to say that it has been a total failure. SHUT IT DOWN. Do not privatize it, SHUT IT DOWN.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why anyone would want to take a government agency that has failed in its mission and PRIVATIZE it. That will lead to government subsidy of a supposedly private enterprise and open the flood gates to even more big government. If an agency is a failure, SHUT IT DOWN. Do understand I am well aware that this shall never happen. We have allowed our government to take over everything. In the Welfare for Welfare Bill, there is actually a twenty-five million dollar appropriation to start a NEW agency to oversee the overseers on the welfare money. ARE YOU FRIGGIN' KIDDING ME? The government freely admits that they cannot do their jobs of overseeing tax money, so we should let them create ANOTHER government agency to oversee the people that are supposed to oversee the money? REALLY?

Remember when the post-racial president said, "There ain't gonna be no damn white-man lobbyists in my posse?" Well, he kinda lied about that. Seems, what he meant to say was, "There are ONLY going to be lobbyists in my administration."

Back to the Welfare for Welfare stuff. It seems that the First Amendment is not that important to newspapers when they want to stay in business. The Philadelphia Inquirer begs for government alms. Do not nationalize the friggin' newspapers, please do not do this.